Overview

• The Russian Defence Ministry released a video featuring a squad commander who described the push into Verbovoe and asserted his team took no casualties as three Ukrainian fighters were killed.
• The commander said intercepted radio traffic at seized positions included Spanish-language speech and that little food and water were found for the defenders.
• The ministry had announced on October 1 that Verbovoe in Dnipropetrovsk region was captured.
• In a separate statement to RIA, regional official Vitaliy Ganchev said a mobilized Ukrainian unit surrendered in Kupyansk and claimed Russian forces are expanding control after blocking the city from the north and west.
• Another RIA report, citing Russian security sources, said Kyiv redeployed Latin American mercenaries to the Hatnensky sector in Kharkiv due to low morale among Ukrainian troops.